Aug 9, 2007
This is the earliest digital photo I have on online storage. Uploaded 10 December 2000, it’s from a holiday to the NSW ski fields, looking down on some ducks that were skating around on the frozen lake in front of our hotel.
Anyway, for the last seven years it’s been hosted with Yahoo! Photos, where it did almost nothing except take up 200k of disk space. Nobody much came and viewed it, nobody...
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Yahoo! still stays still for the camera
Aug 9, 2007
This is the earliest digital photo I have on online storage. Uploaded 10 December 2000, it’s from a holiday to the NSW ski fields, looking down on some ducks that were skating around on the frozen lake in front of our hotel.
Anyway, for the last seven years it’s been hosted with Yahoo! Photos, where it did almost nothing except take up 200k of disk space. Nobody much came and viewed it, nobody...
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Yahoo! still stays still for the camera
Mar 2, 2007
Is having a massive online audience, across a network of online products, enough to win? Not always. The best networks must involve the audience across products, and the products in the network must be monetisable. Google’s a great example, both of what can go wrong and what can be done right.
Over coffee I asked a senior Google salesguy if it was hard selling ads on products that weren’t made...
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At Google you can’t get there from here
Mar 2, 2007
Is having a massive online audience, across a network of online products, enough to win? Not always. The best networks must involve the audience across products, and the products in the network must be monetisable. Google’s a great example, both of what can go wrong and what can be done right.
Over coffee I asked a senior Google salesguy if it was hard selling ads on products that weren’t made...
read more
At Google you can’t get there from here
